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In October 1947, screenwriter Gordon Kahn was one of those subpoenaed to appear
before the House on Un-American Activities Committee which was investigating
`communist subversion' of the film industry. He was subsequently blacklisted and never
worked in the film industry again. Using family photos, archival footage, news clippings,
feature film excerpts and interviews, his son Tony provides a poignant, child's eye view
of how the blacklist affected his family, subjecting them to years of persecution, bigotry,
fear and paranoia, simply because their father was felt to have the `wrong political ideas.'